A hybrid green uninterruptible power system including an input port, a boost module, a secondary battery, a bi-directional converter module, and an inverter module is provided. The boost module converts an AC utility power into a high voltage DC power. The bi-directional converter module includes a multi-winding transformer for either converting the high-voltage DC power into a low-voltage DC power for charging the secondary battery, or for releasing and boosting the power stored in the secondary battery. The multi-winding transformer further induces an additional DC power when converting the power. Whereby, the hybrid green uninterruptible power system is able to generate the additional DC power all the time and optimizes its energy converting efficiency between the secondary battery and an external device consuming DC power.
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1. A hybrid green uninterruptible power system, comprising: an input port, for receiving an AC utility power; a secondary battery; a boost module, for converting the AC utility power into a high voltage DC power; a bi-directional converter module, coupled between the boost module and the secondary battery, wherein the bi-directional converter module has a multi-winding transformer, which bi-directionally converts the high voltage DC power into a low voltage DC power for charging the secondary battery, or releases the power from the secondary battery and boosts thereof, and simultaneously, the multi-winding transformer induces an additional DC power; and an inverter module, coupled to the bi-directional converter module for converting the boosted power, which is released from the secondary battery by the bi-directional converter module, into an AC power, whereby the hybrid green uninterruptible power system induces the additional DC power regardless of whether the AC utility power is normal or invalid.
2. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: an AC power output port, coupled to the inverter module for outputting the AC power; and a DC power output port, coupled to the bi-directional converter module for outputting the additional DC power.
3. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a monitor module, for detecting whether the AC utility power is in a normal or invalid state, so as to control an operation of each module in the hybrid green uninterruptible power system.
4. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the bi-directional converter module comprises a DC voltage conversion circuit, which includes the multi-winding transformer.
5. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the DC voltage conversion circuit is selected from the group consisting of a push-pull DC voltage conversion circuit, a flyback DC voltage conversion circuit, a full-bridge DC voltage conversion circuit, and a half-bridge DC voltage conversion circuit.
6. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hybrid green uninterruptible power system is an off-line UPS or a passive standby UPS.
7. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 6 , further comprising a relay and an AC power output port, wherein the relay is coupled between the input port and the AC power output port, for opening or closing a loop between the input port and the AC power output port according to the state of the AC utility power.
8. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the inverter module is coupled to the relay and the boost module is coupled to the inverter module, the inverter module comprises a bridge circuit, when the AC utility power is normal, the bridge circuit rectifies the AC utility power, further outputs the rectified power to the boost module, and the boost module boosts the rectified power into the high voltage DC power.
9. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hybrid green uninterruptible power system is an on-line UPS.
10. The hybrid green uninterruptible power system as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the boost module is coupled to the input port for rectifying and boosting the AC utility power to become the high voltage DC power, and the inverter module is coupled to the boost module for converting the high voltage DC power into the AC power.
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June 12, 2007
July 27, 2010
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